Sam Denby

Sam Denby is an American YouTube personality and podcaster, best known for creating the YouTube channels Wendover Productions and Half as Interesting.

Sam Denby
Personal information
BornSam Denby
(1997-03-18) March 18, 1997
Washington D.C., U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationContent producer
Websitewendoverproductions.com, halfasinteresting.com
YouTube information
Channels
GenreEducational entertainment
Subscribers
  • 2.82 million (Wendover Productions)
  • 1.72 million (Half as Interesting)
  • 50.6 thousand (Sam from Wendover)
Total views
  • 382.5 million (Wendover Productions)
  • 295.5 million (Half as Interesting)
  • 678.1 thousand (Sam from Wendover)
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers 2016
1,000,000 subscribers 2018
Updated: February 5, 2021

Career

Wendover Productions

Denby created the YouTube channel Wendover Productions on February 11, 2010. He uploaded his first video about the psychology of advertising on August 31, 2015.[‡ 1] Denby has since uploaded hundreds of other videos. As of February 2021, he has over 2.82 million subscribers and more than 382 million total views.[‡ 2] His videos are most commonly about logistics, most notably those of aviation, as well as geography and economics.[1] His video on Tourism in Iceland received significant attention.[2]

Half as Interesting

On August 31, 2017, Denby announced the creation of a second channel called Half as Interesting.[‡ 3] The channel was launched to be a continuation of a series called "That Wikipedia List" or TWL, which had covered topics Denby chose from Wikipedia:Unusual articles, but the new channel would not be limited to that list.[‡ 3] Videos are released 3 times every 2 weeks, every Thursday and every other Tuesday at 10:30 am Eastern Time,[‡ 4] and cover various assorted topics.[‡ 5]

As of February 2021, the channel has over 1.72 million subscribers and over 295 million channel views.[‡ 5] Half As Interesting has a Nebula Exclusive called The Brick Facade.[‡ 6] Its name is derived from the fact that Denby starts off videos relating to secret topics with brick facts.

Other works

In March 2018, he was invited to film with scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his show StarTalk, where Denby, Tyson and Chuck Nice talked about the possibilities of interstellar travel.[‡ 7] This coincided with the launch of his third channel, Sam from Wendover.[‡ 8]

In June 2019, Denby created a podcast called Extremities about the logistics of living in the world's most isolated populated locations.[3][‡ 9] The first season was about Pitcairn Island, consisting of six episodes. Season 2 started on September 25, 2019, and is about Svalbard. Season 3 started on November 27, 2019, and is about Saint Helena.[‡ 10] Also, on December 31, 2019, Wendover Productions released on YouTube the documentary The World's Most Useful Airport, which documents the origins of the airport of St. Helena, the troubles with being certified for operational use, etc. alongside a segment that talks about the airport's medevac value with a testament from the mother of a patient.[‡ 11]

He was one of the original founders of the Standard creator community along with Dave Wiskus, CGP Grey, Philipp Dettmer and many other creators. Through Standard, he has released most of his content on the Nebula streaming video service, as well as one Nebula Exclusive The Final Years of Majuro.[4]

Personal life

While Denby was born in Washington, D.C., he explained during the launch of his third channel that he has lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, for at least two years.[‡ 8] However, on his Instagram account, he stated he has lived in Colorado as of 2020.[‡ 12] As of April 2018, he was studying international business.[‡ 13]

References

Citations
  1. Dudley, David (August 19, 2020). "Bad Trains, Explained". City Lab. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  2. Hafstað, Vala (June 7, 2019). "Iceland's Tourism Explosion Explained". Iceland Monitor. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  3. Scott, Richard (July 5, 2019). "'Extremities': taking you to the world's most isolated places" (Audio). Radio New Zealand. The Podcast Hour. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  4. Hale, James (June 10, 2019). "Creators Can't Always Take Risks With Their Content. That's Why YouTuber Community Standard Built Nebula — A Platform For Its Creators To Experiment". TubeFilter. Retrieved June 24, 2020.

Primary sources

In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. "How Marketers Manipulate Us: Psychological Manipulation in Advertising – YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
  2. "Wendover Productions". YouTube. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  3. Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). TWL is back! (But not here...) (Video). Wendover Productions. Retrieved December 20, 2019 – via YouTube.
  4. "Half as Interesting". YouTube. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  5. "Half as Interesting". Youtube. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  6. "Nebula". watchnebula.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  7. deGrasse Tyson, Neil; Nice, Chuck; Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). Interstellar Travel with Wendover and Neil Tyson (Video). StarTalk. Retrieved December 20, 2019 – via YouTube.
  8. Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). A Moderately Successful Face Reveal (Video). Sam from Wendover. Event occurs at 1:25. Retrieved April 6, 2018 – via YouTube.
  9. Denby, Sam (June 12, 2019). Announcing a New Podcast That Nobody Asked For (Video). Half as Interesting. Event occurs at 1:00. Retrieved June 13, 2019 – via YouTube.
  10. Denby, Sam [@wendoverpro] (November 28, 2019). "Extremities season three has now started!" (Tweet). Retrieved June 11, 2020 – via Twitter.
  11. "The World's Most Useful Airport [Documentary]". Wendover Productions. December 31, 2019 – via YouTube.
  12. "Life update: I've moved to Colorado Pictured: Skiing, a week ago". Instagram. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  13. Denby, Sam. "Economics has too much math. I study International Business". Reddit. Retrieved April 6, 2018.

Further reading
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